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An informal definition of Honey Trapping will be ‘retrieving information of any sort about a country or a person using any means’. Using the means of ‘Wine, Wealth and Women’ is prevalent in honey trapping. But recent addition to that is cyber space using social networking sites or any other means of online means of communication to gather confidential or secret information.

Honey Trapping has its existence even in the ancient periods even though the term ‘Honey Trapping’ was not prevalent. One can remember stories of using poisonous girl to retrieve information or kill anyone during Mauryan Empire. Now, the same old wine is in new bottle with added present day technology.

Honey Trapping is majorly used to get the information about defense
of another country from the higher level officials. The main targets will be the
officials working in the Embassy. Honey Trapping is done in such a way that one
cannot make out that they are being trapped. There are no straight forward
steps or procedure to get someone trapped, it can go to any level including
romance or beyond! Recent suspensions of officials working at Indian Embassy
abroad and few IAS officers are instances of officials being trapped.

Honey trapping recently being used to check the loyalty of a
person in relationship. Even TV shows telecasted few shows how they trapped
crooks. Honey Trapping is not like spying about a person, it is like making use
of someone either man or woman to closely associate with the other to gather
information. Giving lump sum money or taking advantage of weakness of a person
is common thing.

In Cyber space, honey trapping will be done mainly using
social networking sites or chat rooms. Hacking databases to access critical
information about a country or its opinion about other countries is also a kind
of honey trapping! In social networking sites all of a sudden a charming girl
or a handsome guy will send chat or friend requests and starts to being close
so that the confidence is gain. Interestingly a person of opposite gender is
used in these purposes.